Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll will become the third coach to have a Lombardi Trophy as well as a national championship in college football. / AP

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As a matter of full disclosure, I dropped my crystal ball last week and it shattered all over the kitchen floor. Pretty much the same as when your iPhone slams into any hard surface. I’m still sweeping up shards of it. ¶ No worries. I can handle this. How difficult can it be to figure out what’s going to happen on the sports landscape in 2014, right? ¶ I know unusual things can happen on occasion — the Miracle on Ice ... Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson ... the Giants’ David Tyree pinning that ball against his helmet with the Patriots’ Rodney Harrison hanging all over him, to name a few — but most of it is pretty routine stuff.

• Take the Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, now less than five weeks away.

The NFL’s dream scenario had Peyton Manning leading the Denver Broncos into the Meadowlands to face little brother Eli, trying to even the score with two world championships apiece by taking on the Giants in their own stadium.

Eli Manning’s 27 interceptions assured that would not be the case right from the start, but Peyton’s record-setting season with 55 touchdown passes and 5,476 yards in the air gives the Broncos home-field advantage in the playoffs, and will ultimately put Denver in the metropolitan area come late January.

Their opponent will be the Seattle Seahawks, with head coach Pete Carroll returning to the Meadowlands, where Dan Marino’s fake spike and resulting touchdown pass in 1994 put the Jets into a nosedive that ultimately cost Carroll his job.

He’ll fare much better this time around.

On a windy, snowy evening that will drive television ratings to new heights, Manning will struggle to throw the ball and a solid Seahawks defense will spoil running back Knowshon Moreno’s Garden State homecoming. Meanwhile, Seattle’s Russell Wilson will improvise his way to a world championship, with Carroll joining Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer as the only coaches to win a national championship in college and hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

• The other best-case scenario for the Park Avenue suits would have been to have the two locals slug it out in their own stadium.

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Neither team was really in the mix, but the Jets were better than the Giants all season, including wins over New England and New Orleans, before crushing Miami’s playoff dreams on Sunday. Getting that team to 8-8 with a mistake-prone rookie quarterback in Geno Smith and limited weapons on offense was Rex Ryan’s best coaching job yet.

Jets’ fans will reap the rewards next season. While the Giants undergo a painful rebuilding process, Jets general manager John Idzik will plug some holes on the roster and Gang Green will return to the postseason after three straight playoff-less seasons, winning the AFC East.

• In other NFL news, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will continue with his belief that the he knows football, and his team will finish 8-8 for a fourth straight season, fantasy football will become more important than the actual games, and Tim Tebow will resurface in Canada and win a Grey Cup.

• While we’re on the subject of big events, circle Sept. 13 and Oct. 4 on the calendar, if anyone still uses a calendar. That’s when Penn State and Michigan, respectively, will come to High Point Solutions Stadium for Rutgers’ first two Big Ten games.

They’ll be sellouts, hopefully with mostly Scarlet Knights fans. And while the home team figures to struggle badly in their inaugural campaign, the excitement those two games will generate could do wonders for this program in terms of recruiting and overall visibility, while providing a glimpse of how far the team has to go but how rewarding the payoff might ultimately be.

• If it’s any consolation to Yankees’ fans, Robinson Cano will struggle in Seattle, where the protection he’ll receive in the Mariners’ lineup, or lack thereof, will be a far cry from what he got in New York.

• Actually, it won’t be much consolation, as the Yankees are unable to find their way to the top of the AL East for most of the season. But in a twist that will have Major League Baseball reeling, Alex Rodriguez will have his suspension reduced to 100 games, thanks in part to MLB’s unorthodox investigation methods, and he’ll return for the final two months and help the Yankees land a wild-card spot.

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• While general manager Sandy Alderson made some early moves, signing Curtis Granderson, Bartolo Colon and Chris Young, the Mets’ offseason moves won’t be nearly enough to make them a contender. And without a young stud like Matt Harvey to energize things every fifth day, Citi Field will lack any kind of atmosphere as the summer drags on.

• At the Prudential Center in Newark, Super Bowl XLVIII Media Day — the annual question-and-answer fest that gets more bizarre with each passing year — won’t be the only big event this year.

It seems like every time you think Martin Brodeur’s career is finally at an end, he resurrects it. And one of Brodeur’s finest hours will come this spring, when he singlehandedly lifts the offensively-challenged Devils into the postseason at age 41.

There’s no Stanley Cup at the end, but the excitement he’ll generate down the stretch and through the postseason will go a long way towards re-energizing the franchise. And their game against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium on Jan. 26, kicking off Super Bowl week, will be a classic.

• The other spring sagas will revolve around the area’s NBA franchises.

Jason Kidd has too good a basketball mind to be this bad a coach. He’s going to get better, and so are the Brooklyn Nets. And with a healthy Deron Williams leading the way, and steady leadership and improved production form Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, the Nets will be playing their best basketball when the postseason arrives.

• As for the Knicks, not so much.

Carmelo Anthony and his impending free agency will be a huge distraction as the team misses the playoffs, and then he’ll end up staying in New York anyway because owner James Dolan will pay him the most money. And the flawed plan to build a championship team around Anthony will continue.

• We’re all going to be sick of the term “three-peat” come June, and then “four-peat” after the Miami Heat win their third straight NBA title, at which point LeBron James isn’t going anywhere.

• As the summer begins to heat up, the world’s attention will turn to Brazil and the World Cup.

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The United State’s men’s national team is coming off its finest season ever, with coach Jurgen Klinsmann’s squad winning 16 of 23 matches, with a winning percentage of .761. They’ve proven they can win in Europe, and have dominated in their region like never before.

It won’t be easy emerging from group play, with Germany and Portugal, two of the top five teams in the world, in their way. But Klinsmann won a World Cup playing for West Germany in 1990, and a European championship with Germany in 1996. If anyone can figure out a way to get a result against the Germans, it’s him. And maybe, just maybe, the United States can advance to the knockout stage, where anything can happen.

• I honestly can’t tell you what’s going to happen at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, other than the fact that we’ll see more shots of Tiger Woods watching his girlfriend/skier Lindsey Vonn than any actual U.S. athletes, and the host country’s anti-gay laws will dominate the non-sports conversation.

• Speaking of Tiger Woods, his drought in major championships will continue into a sixth year, leaving him stuck at 14 major titles, four behind Jack Nicklaus. And at 38, with his last major coming at the 2008 U.S. Open, the odds of Woods restarting his quest are growing longer.

• So there you have it. I know, it takes the drama out of it, but sometimes unusual things happen.

And if things don’t work out as planned, I might have to use one of those Magic 8 Balls. I have a feeling “Don’t count on it” will be settling into the window quite often.